Publishing and the class struggle? The 1815 fourpenny tax on newspapers was meant to make them unaffordable to the English poor and thus curtail the spread of radical ideas. This also repudiated a goal of the Enlightenment, by hindering dissemination of other educational materials among the poor, thus also offending middle class educators and reformers. Against this background, a resurgence of radicalism after the French revolution of 1830 encouraged a proliferation of illegal, untaxed broadsides and newspapers the pauper press or the Unstamped . A conjunction of working and middle class interests secured a reduction of the tax in 1836 and the Unstamped press disappeared, after having provided the impetus for future production of cheap popular literature. Some soiling, slightly cocked, split at top of back hinge. xviii, 348, 2 pages. cloth.. small 8vo..